- In this movie I'll show you how to smooth out…and redraw certain portions of a path outline…with the help of a couple of additional tools…that live here inside the Pencil tool flyout menu,…including the Smooth tool and the Path Eraser.…The first thing I'm going to do is press the V key…to return to the black arrow tool, and then I'll…go ahead and select my heart and I'll get rid…of it just by pressing the Backspace key…or the Delete key on the Mac.…And now I'll go ahead and switch back to the Pencil tool,…and let's say I draw one half…of my heart really nice…like this and the other half…is pretty wobbly, and I'm making a lot of herky-jerky…movements here, and I finally end the path outline…at the top.…

Well, then, I end up with this pretty unsmooth half…of a heart over here on the left-hand side.…One option for smoothing it is to click and hold on…the Pencil tool and then releasing this vertical bar…in order to create a floating toolbar, and now I'll…go ahead and select the Smooth tool and I'll press…the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac,…

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Want to master the most powerful vector-based drawing program on the planet? It starts with getting the most comprehensive training available. With all-new movies and all-new exercise files, Illustrator CC 2015 One-on-One: Fundamentals is the first in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. With these tutorials, you'll be able to create amazing works of art and design. You'll get exactly what you need to know, in the order you need to know it, whenever it's most convenient for you to learn.

Start watching to learn how to create multipage documents with artboards; how to draw anything you can imagine with the Pen, Pencil, and Curvature tools; and how to start adding color to your artwork with swatches. Deke also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text, and painting digitally, with or without a tablet. Each chapter should leave you with a new set of skills—and a sense of accomplishment.

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